What is the kindest thing a stranger has done or said to you?

When I was in the third grade I had to take a bus to get to school, it was quite a distance away. During the morning I wasn't feeling well and asked to go to the bathroom. I guess I was taking a bit to long and the teacher came in to see what was happening.
I was in a mess, vomiting, and everything else that comes with the flu.
Calling the parents back in the 50s wasn't an option. Most moms didn't have a car back in the early 50's.
The only thing left to do was to stay in the nurses office and go home on the bus.
This teacher saw how miserable I was. She washed me up, even my under pants and then gave up her lunch to drive me home. .
I'll never forget her kindness.
 

Gaer said:
Today I had a brake leak fixed,rear hubs rotors, etc and the shop was terribly busy. The mechanic said, "Oh, I also checked all your engine fluids. They were all low. so i filled them."I I was astonished! Then he went on to say, "You can come by here every month if you want and I'll check your engine and fluids for you free."
That was so unexpected. What a sweet thing!
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For free? Sounds suspicious. LOL
 
Many years ago when my children were young a woman moved a few doors away from me. She had a young daughter and no husband. I noticed that every day the little girl would leave school at lunchtime to go home to have lunch and then go back to school. One day I asked the mother if I could give the daughter lunch and walk her back and forth to school. The Mom said ok and that's what I did. Only a few years ago the girl called me. She said that she never knew what love was until she met me and came over to my house. She said the love she felt when she saw how I loved my children and showed her the same kind of love she said her heart melted. She actually made me cry.
 

Chet said:
It took a while to think of one and I guess I'm not alone.
I shot a deer while hunting alone and I had a long drag over hills and dales and fallen trees. Another hunter who I didn't know offered to help me get the deer back to the car and lift it into my trunk. I asked for his name and address and told him that I'd bring him some cuts of meat which I did. They were the better ones of chops and steaks.
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I'd only just opened up the thread so have an excuse too, and luckily for me I think I have been on the receiving end of a few very touching things strangers have chosen to do for me, and as another has said a smile is sometimes all it takes to lift your day coming from a stranger. :giggle:

I doubt the man who probably did the most for me would have realised how much he helped, and it was a complete stranger I met in a bar in Dublin who told me "Dont worry about being a dad, it comes naturally"! Those words from a man who had drunk a few more pints of Guinness than advisable, really clicked with me and gave me confidence, and I dont think I'd have gotten quite the same boost had I known the man. :unsure:
 
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They make fun of us Canadians for being ‘nice’. Generally I really think we are. Don’t get me wrong, there’re lots of jerks to be avoided.

The tire stories brought back a memory. It was the 80‘s, my Honda Civic was new. My tire went flat when I was driving by myself on a rural highway. A transport truck driver saw me reading the instructions on how to change the tire. He found a place to make a U turn, no easy feat, and came back & changed it for me.
 
Last spring I was out in my wheelchair and along a particularly exposed stretch of the shore I was being buffeted quite badly by the on shore wind.

I became aware that a large SUV had pulled alongside me but was not overtaking (I was in a roadgoing power chair) .

Once we were more sheltered they pulled away and I realised they had been shielding me from the worst of the storm and spray.

I don't even know if this anonymous person was male or female.
 
A few years ago I was piddling around the piano department in a big music store while my husband was getting his trumpet fixed. An older man, a sales clerk, came up to me and talked to me a little while about my experience with pianos etc. Something about him made me feel so understood and "seen," he left me with a warm, almost loved feeling. A little while later I saw him across the store talking to my husband and then as we left the store my husband looked back at him and said, "I think that must be the nicest man I ever met." What a wonderful person who could make us both feel so special in such a short time.
 
One time, in a line-up for coffee, the woman behind me complimented me on my coat .. I almost felt like taking it off and giving it to her. Another time, a younger woman complimented my outfit and said that she wished her mother would dress like me. I don't know if compliments are considered a kindness, but they sure made me feel good :)

Sometimes, I think that even asking someone how they are, can make a difference to that persons day. It acknowledges they are seen.
 
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What is the kindest thing a stranger has done or said to you?​


Well, I wouldn't call it kind, more cheeky!

Being tall, I was more than a bit miffed, when I was stood at a bus stop and a dog just cocked it's leg up on me and had a pee, and there was a perfectly good tree only 3 feet away. 😊
 
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